1. Monkey & The Engineer 2. How Long Blues 3. Friend Of The Devil 4. Dark Hollow 5. Candyman 6. Ripple-> 7. Brokedown Palace 8. Truckin' 9. Cocaine Blues 10. Rosalie McFall 11. Wake Up Little Susie 12. New Speedway Boogie 13. Cold Jordan 14. Swing Low Sweet Chariot
Electric Set:
15. Cold Rain & Snow 16. Me & My Uncle 17. Easy Wind
CD2:
1. China Cat Sunflower-> 2. I Know You Rider 3. Saint Stephen-> 4. Sugar Magnolia 5. Good Lovin' 6. New Minglewood Blues 7. Casey Jones 8. Not Fade Away**-> 9. Turn On Your Lovelight**
Versions - Different performances of the song by the same artist
Compilations - Other albums which feature this performance of the song
Covers - Performances of a song with the same name by different artists
Song Title
Versions
Compilations
Covers
Monkey & The Engineer
How Long Blues
Friend Of The Devil
Dark Hollow
Candyman
Ripple->
Brokedown Palace
Truckin'
Cocaine Blues
Rosalie McFall
Wake Up Little Susie
New Speedway Boogie
Cold Jordan
Swing Low Sweet Chariot
Cold Rain & Snow
Me & My Uncle
Easy Wind
China Cat Sunflower->
I Know You Rider
Saint Stephen->
Sugar Magnolia
Good Lovin'
New Minglewood Blues
Casey Jones
Not Fade Away**->
Turn On Your Lovelight**
Notes
The original taper(s) stopped the tape between most songs during the acoustic set and some of the electric set. I have crossfaded the tracks together to smooth the cuts and provide a generally more pleasant listening experience. No music was lost (and no further tinkering was attempted), although I have removed some crowd and a wee bit o' tuning to tighten things up and facilitate a two disc set. To accomplish this, I decoded the original sources with xACT, lightly edited several tracks in Peak LE 5.2, and did the crossfades in Jam 5. Encoding to FLAC was done with Toast 7.1.2, compression level 6.
CDJones 1/17/2007
From the original sources:
Set 1:
Master Audience Cassette; Sony TC-124 with Sony Stereo Mic
Master cassettes played back on Nakamichi Dragon >
Digital Audio Labs Card Deluxe soundcard (96Mhz/24 bit)> HD
Editing performed in Adobe Audition; Dithered and downsampled to 44.1 MHz / 16 bit;
Transfer and FLAC encoding by David Minches.
This is a very fine recording, especially of the acoustic set and includes 4 songs that aren't in circulation. The tape deck was paused in between songs causing a "whooshing" sound which I partially edited out. The first few notes of many of the songs are missing due to the pausing but do not allow that to take away from the excellence of the recording. There are other anomalies and cuts, some of which I had not listed.
Set 2:
Notes:
--a quote from deadlists: "The Taper's Compendium seriously misrepresents the quality of this AUD master, and of the previous night's."
Part of The Music Never Stopped Project 2002
Thanks to Raoul Duke
edits/encoding by Matt Vernon & JCotsman
Reviewer:Jim Powell
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November 1, 2022 (edited)
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eyewitness personnel report etc.
This new re-reproduction lets Gene Taback’s primo audience cassette master turn up its bright lights all the way. Taback’s perfect mic placement --
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Go Sony! -- makes for clean crisp separation, tight definition for Phil’s lively bass -- the field of band ensemble sharply focused in detail -- all now transparently present. The (three) Rowan Brothers opened this Wednesday show, unbilled, with about 20 minutes of acapella harmony bluegrass. The ACOUSTIC DEAD and Friends followed 15 minutes laterr. Pigpen's scattershot honkytonk piano from an acoustic upright, played standing up, figures prominently on Truckin, also on Monkey & the Engineer, Candyman, Ripple, Brokedown Palace and New Speedway Boogie. David Nelson plays mandolin on many tunes and sings harmony on several. Marmaduke adds harmony vocals and/or guitar on a few. There’s maybe a second mandolin and/or fiddle (pizzicato and bowed) on Cocaine Blues and Rosalie McFall, possibly a second mandolin elsewhere too? Jerry goes full electric for New Speedway Boogie. The concluding gospel tunes feature harmony vocals from Nelson and Marmaduke. On Wake Up Little Susie Is Jerry playing an electric guitar turned down, maybe a hollow-body? (For another sample of Pigpen's piano check out the 1966 studio version of Taste Bud.) The NRPS SET opened with Six Days on the Road, then all their first album tunes plus Superman and others -- Down in the Boondocks, Truck Driving Man, Willie and the Hand Jive? The album material was new, they put it straight across, from the heart. Jerry's pedal steel was spellbinding mindbending. Whatcha Gonna Do and Garden of Eden were standouts. Everything was standouts. Jerry’s solo on Last Lonely Eagle went deep deep. They jammed out Dirty Business into its menacing ominous grunge space at great length. Between tunes Jerry’s pedal steel said "Oh wow." They closed with The Weight and Honkytonk Woman. It must have run an hour and more. This was my second or perhaps third Dead show. We were a dozen feet from the stage on what was then Jerry’s side. It wasn’t so crowded -- friendly, laid-back, room to dance, excellent sight-lines & sound. Thank you BG & Crew. Listening to Jerry switch from acoustic guitar to pedal steel to electric was a four-hour lifetime altering utterly fixating display of incomparable genius. It's a great shame we don't (yet? ever?) have tape of this NRPS set because it was totally an integral part of the evening. I have not heard it equaled (or close) among the dozen and more tapes available of Jerry-era NRPS live (May 1970 - October 1971); later performances tend less expansive, less relaxed, are tour-tight. The improvement in listening for the ELECTRIC SET is less drastic but still remarkable. The Lovelight is complete at 30:27. Bobby's guitar is in fine form and audible clean in the mix. Phil dazzles all night and you can hear him great. This sharpened definition is a major gain for hearing the band in peak mode in detail. Pigpen’s harmonica duos with Jerry in the Easy Wind jam (not always on mic, -- now he’s audible). The band kicks in hard around 5:30 -- the fuse is lit. David Crosby adds electric guitar, turned way down low, at intervals throughout the electric set from Easy Wind forward. This transformingly re-curated recording makes him audible. He turns it up for Not Fade Away and Lovelight. Kudos and muchas garcias, Jones and Minches. Twelve stars a set.
Reviewer:egeff
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February 8, 2022 (edited)
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Just lovely
I'm a huge fan of these acoustic sets. It's such a gold mine to be able to listen to these absolutely free streaming into my cell phone when I'm outside
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walking. I couldn't possibly have dreamed of this kind of access back in 1980s when I first started listening to them. We had to work to just get a copy. Each one of these acoustic shows are gems to me. This one in particular is really lovely. Beautiful versions of ripple and Candyman and Dark hollow and what a treat to hear how long blues and Rosalie Mcfall. I love the little gospel part at the end with David Nelson on mandolin. The second electric set is just smoking fire It's hot hot. Surprisingly, the worst part is David Crosby. He's very faint in the background thankfully but he's just sounding awful on the guitar and awful on the vocals which is hard to imagine for somebody of his caliber. I listened to this set slowly and it took a couple of days to get through it and it was well worth every moment of it. I really am enjoying the ripples and the way that it goes into broke down palace is perfect. There's a pretty good discussion on this issue in the good old Grateful Dead podcast episode on brokedown palace which I highly highly recommend... Too bad about Crosby could have been amazing... Anybody else agree with this? I am a huge Crosby fan in general except when he does something stupid which is not uncommon haha Oh I completely forgot to mention the piano playing. People are saying it's pigpen I certainly would like to think so It does sound a little tentative at times. But it's hard to say because Garcia was playing solo concerts with other piano players so it doesn't sound like Ned to me because it's just not proficient enough sounding but could be that he just didn't know the tunes that well or could have been Merle. Frequently tell my friends and family that I don't like speculation and that's what I'm doing right now so I'm going to stop but I just want to mention the piano playing is great and it would be wonderful if it was pig doing it.
Reviewer:c-freedom
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Got to have lovin'
well obviously if you were at this show this was over the top but if we go just on the recording probably somewhere in the 4 range. Still the acoustic
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songs are pretty captivating especially How Long and Cocaine Blues... Electric when in full jam mode like the Good Lovin' really cooks. This is not the first thing I would want to turn someone on to the Dead's music but as a Head it gives me a deeper appreciation of how this band was so much tighter than other bands from the time period. And by the 70's they were the bees knees indeed. Weir kills me with the original Minglewood ;)
A favorite aud of mine on the archive, great acoustic and electric sets. (NOTE: This is the best version of this date on offer.) This here is a QUALITY
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aud-- nice, clean, and lively. I really like how the group, as good as it is, is kind of ragged from night to night from '66-'71. It feels like rock n' roll. After that they really tighten up, for the most part-- which is fine too! Cold Rain and Snow is dynamite, the whole sequence from China Cat thru Good Lovin' is a peak, and NFA --> Lovelight is ECSTATIC.
Reviewer:Evan S. Hunt
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August 20, 2011 Subject:
"A Very Fine Recording?"
I don't think so, but it's adequate to portray the band in 1970, which was a little sloppy that night, perhaps because they were home turfed. Yet though
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they were slopping it up in places (too numerous to give examples) they would come out of it with a dazzling bit of exceptional playing. This reviewer was an attendee and I recall it was a very fine concert -- maybe the best of the run. Don't know who was playing the mandolin -- whether it was David Grisman or David Nelson -- think it was both. Pigpen is on piano through half of the acoustic set and also played some acoustic guitar. Perhaps Ned Lagin sat in on piano, or perhaps it was Nelson again. David Nelson is a very accomplished multi-instrumentalist (besides playing electric guitar and singing in the NRPS). The Lovelights is a barn burner. Walking out into the latenight coolness of a San Francisco Wednesday evening was a real eyeopener due to it being so dang hot in that joint. Graham had packed the place way beyond legal capacity. We drove back to Hayward. Happy Campers? You betcha.
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August 17, 2011 Subject:
Typical '70 mixed bag
It's true that the recording is great for the time period, and the acoustic set is excellent, but I almost wish it was harder to hear the electric set.
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Something sounds out of tune, off-key or off pitch there.
Reviewer:gratedude69
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August 19, 2010 Subject:
amazing amazing show
the acoustic stuff here is incredible, the vocals are perfect and amazing, the song selection is awesome great tunes, nice hearing the american beauty
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stuff, i love wake up little susie and sweet chariot the electric stuff is equally as good, great song selection all well played extremely well played, and how bout that intro the good lovin is crazy so good
Reviewer:mthurman
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April 12, 2010 Subject:
Fun acoustic set; smokin' Good Lovin'
I love these 1970 acoustic sets. Fine vocals and Workingman's Dead/American beauty song selection. Aside from other highlights noted below, the electric
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set includes an outstanding version of Good Lovin', with some fairly intricate lead work, a lot of syncopation in the rhythm, and Pigpen in excellent form. Recording has some rough edges, but it comes with the territory. Do yourself a favor and download the FLACs.
Reviewer:mid-maine
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August 24, 2009 Subject:
how long blues
this is a fantastic track as the previous add man indicated. to me, it is jerry's tip o' the hand to mississippi john hurt (see "coffee blues"). it has
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that same sorta avalon feel of m.j.h.'s light-hearted, yet deep, blues. tell it to me (aka cocaine blues) sounded great last night as i heard ketch secor sing it with the toughcats. nice to see the song is still alive. for a brief, if slightly amateur, musicology thread of this soulful tune, check out the wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cocaine_Blues peace, y'all. p.s. i DIG this recording.
How Long Blues is just...... I haven't the words!!! This recording isn't that bad either.It kinda gives it that vintage tone that this show deserves!!
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I love it the whole thing from start to finish,and that's unusual for me.Ask my wife! She hates it that I skip through tracks the way I do.It may be my ADD,and this may be the cure.A temporary one anyway! Thanx billions to the taper who captured this piece of history,and to every other taper and the archive for all this wonderful music.Most of all to the Grateful Dead!! Where would we be without them?????? % stars for the show and we won't worry about the sound on this one!!! Just listen to it and I believe you'll feel the same!!
Reviewer:spirit of eden
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April 12, 2009 Subject:
The Dead s vocals are just PERFECT = )
The vocal harmonizing - especially on candyman , and then later on other songs - is absolutely impecable . And thanks to the taper who caughtthis live
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in 1970 , we can hear this majestic piece of history of the GD Thanks for sharing this beautiful recording . Id love to hear this , say ......... cleaned up by the GD engineers ( Lemieux etc ] . I rank this show up there with the other greats of the GD ( ithica 77 etc etc ]
Reviewer:thelegroom
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November 29, 2008 Subject:
Not Too Shabby
Thanx CD, Gene, & David. I have heard worse recordings. I always appreciate the foresight of the early tapers. The acoustic set is very nice. Love
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Pig on the piano, esp. the Truckin'. Lovelight is a barnburner, Pig raps with just handclapping, a beautiful moment. I am opening my radio show this week with Stephen>Sugar Mags and NFA>Lovelight. Peace
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